# Spacecraft Mission Systems Engineer

Quantum Space is redefining mobility and maneuverability in space. Our high-mobility spacecraft platforms support national security, civil, and commercial missions with unmatched flexibility and propulsion capability. We build fast and iterate quickly. Who We're Looking For We are seeking a technically strong and mission-focused Spacecraft Mission Systems Engineer to help define, architect, analyze, and integrate mission capabilities for our next-generation spacecraft platforms. In this role, you will translate customer objectives and mission needs into spacecraft mission architectures, operational concepts, performance requirements, and mission design solutions. You will work across spacecraft systems engineering, propulsion, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), flight software, avionics, ground systems, and mission operations to ensure spacecraft capabilities align with mission objectives and operational requirements. You will play a critical role in connecting mission-level objectives with spacecraft design and implementation, evaluating mission feasibility, developing operational scenarios, assessing spacecraft performance, and ensuring technical alignment throughout the mis

- **Id**: 4056165
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/quantum-space-spacecraft-mission-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hawthorne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T01:38:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T05:11:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10000
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Space Defense

## Company

- **Id**: 3813300
- **Name**: Quantum Space
- **Domain**: quantumspaceinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/quantumspaceinc>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 119
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 175000
- **Max**: 260000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 260000

## Technologies

- **Confluence** — Optional: yes
- **GMAT** — Optional: yes
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **STK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T05:11:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 119
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 260000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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